I needed a wireless bridge recently. Have had bad luck w/ some of the cheap routers and had a pfSense box sitting around unused. One of the things I discovered was that it would not let me bridge all the NICs since the wireless NIC was in Infrastructure mode.
That wasn’t a big issue since it’s just for an Xbox so I just made the wireless NIC the WAN port and gave the LAN ports their own subnet. I turned off all firewall functions and made it routing only. At this point I’ve got my main pfSense box which is 192.168.5.1. The new bridge is 192.168.51.1 with the Xbox being 192.168.51.6. I setup a static route in my main router so it knew to route traffic to .51.x via the wireless interface. At that point it worked fine on my network, but any clients couldn’t reach the outside world. I could ping by IP address or friendly name from the wireless bridge, but not the Xbox or my laptop connected to it. After tracking down the issue I found the problem was that I had to set the default gateway on the machines on the .51 network to 192.168.5.1 to make it work. The DHCP server won’t let me set that since it’s not on the same subnet range as the DHCP scope. I expected that I could set it to 192.168.51.1 and it would route from there. I setup the Xbox w/ a static IP address so it’s working, but I’d like to fix the issue so it’s right. Any suggestions? psSense router - WAN DSL / PPPOE w/ Bridged LAN/WiFi on 192.168.5.0/24 pfSense bridge w/ WiFi WAN (192.168.5.2), 192.168.51.0/24.
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